The Presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has not approved state or local government police.
The creation of the state or local government police, it said, remained a recommendation as submitted in the report submitted to the president by the panel set up on the need to reform the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
The Presidency said it would be premature to do that as it the president had only received the report.
The Presidency said what Buhari had only done was to direct that the report be studied and a white paper produced within three months.
“Until a white paper is produced, it will be premature and pre-emptive to suggest that the recommendations contained in the report have been approved by the President in part or whole,” the Presidency said in a statement issued by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
The statement reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari Monday received a report on the reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
“The President requested that the report be studied and a white paper produced within three months.
“President Buhari’s specific directive is that a three-man panel be set up to produce the white paper.
“The report of the white paper committee will form the basis of the decisions of the government on the many recommendations, including the setting up of state and local government police made by the Ojukwu panel.
“Until a white paper is produced, it will be premature and pre-emptive to suggest that the recommendations contained in the report have been approved by the President in part or whole.”
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